OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR LOCATION CARDS

摘要

Innovations in the area of presentation of location-related actions and location information are presented. For example, an application calls an operating system to generate a location card. The location card can show a map of a location as well as additional information about the location and one or more action indicators. With an action indicator, a user can launch an application to perform an action related to the location immediately and directly from the location card. Depending on usage scenario, an application can specify different actions to be represented with action indicators in a location card. At the same time, location cards supported by the operating system provide a consistent way to expose location information and location-related actions to users.

主权项

1. In a computing system, a method comprising:
in an operating system of the computing system, in response to one or more calls through an application programming interface (“API”), generating a location card for a location, the location card including (a) a map for the location, (b) details about the location, and (c) one or more action indicators, each of the one or more action indicators being linked to an application capable of performing a corresponding action, wherein the operating system supports location card functionality for first-party applications and for third-party applications that make calls through the API; and outputting the location card for display.